April 18, 2017: Texas A&M professor Gary Varner discusses the ethics of animal companions
by Michelle Saport |
Pets, Companion Animals, and Domesticated Partners: Ethics and Animal Companions
Tuesday, April 18, 6-8 p.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307
Gary Varner is the author of Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition: Situating Animals in Hare's Two-Level Utilitarianism (Oxford University Press, 2012). In this presentation, he will introduce stipulative definitions of terms "companion animal," "domesticated partners" and "mere pet." He will argue that the institution of pet-keeping is justifiable, but that the justification is stronger for companion animals than for mere pets, and that it is stronger for domesticated partners.
Gary Varner is a professor at Texas A&M University. His research interests include environmental ethics, philosophical questions related to animal rights and animal welfare, and R. M. Hare's two-level utilitarianism.
Hosted by the UAA Department of Philosophy. For more information about this event, please contact professor Raymond Anthony at rxanthony@alaska.edu.
The UAA Department of Philosophy will also host a public symposium on food ethics April 11-more details here.
"April 18, 2017: Texas A&M professor Gary Varner discusses the ethics of animal companions" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.